{"id":6779,"date":"2009-09-09T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T21:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2009-09-09T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T21:03:28","slug":"the-footwear-experiment-week-three-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6779","title":{"rendered":"The Footwear Experiment, Ctd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/5fingers.jpg\" align=left style=\"border:none\">Today starts my third week of running in the FiveFingers. I've gone from wondering if it was even possible to run in them, to having a sense of the form I'd need, to being able to force myself into the form, to being able to get into the form and stay there as long as I maintain near-constant attention.<\/p>\n<p>And today? My left hip hurts (which has on and off for years now); left knee hurts (which it's done on and off since I twisted it climbing stairs this past winter); the plantar fascia in both my feet hurt (which usually only happens when I do calf stretches). So, except for shin splints, I have all the things barefoot\/minimal-shoe running proponents claim it fixes\/prevents.<\/p>\n<p>It could be a matter of still not quite having the correct form, but when I'm doing it, it feels pretty smooth, mostly. I try not to over extend my knees; I try to lift my feet off as quickly as possible; I'm not heel-striking. Plus, I'm extending the distances I run, and feeling somewhat strong doing it. IT only hurts when I stop...<\/p>\n<p>So I'm wondering if I should keep this up, or if I should end the experiment before I really fuck up my lower body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today starts my third week of running in the FiveFingers. I've gone from wondering if it was even possible to run in them, to having a sense of the form I'd need, to being able to force myself into the form, to being able to get into the form and stay there as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fivefingers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}